Why We’re Polarized

Ezra Klein’s 2020 book argues that America’s political system is not broken but working as designed, and that the result is polarization. He looks at the widening divide between Democrats and Republicans and the structural and psychological forces behind it, offering a framework for everything from Donald Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s shift left and the politicization of everyday culture. Reviews were, fittingly, polarized, from praise in The New York Times to criticism in The Wall Street Journal.